Cross-sectional assessment of hearing acuity of an unscreened 85-year-old cohort - Including a 10-year longitudinal study of a sub-sample

Göthberg, Hanna; Rosenhall, Ulf; Tengstrand, Tomas; Sterner, Therese Rydberg; Wetterberg, Hanna; Zettergren, Anna; Skoog, Ingmar; Sadeghi, André

doi:10.1016/j.heares.2019.107797

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“…However, there is converging evidence that sensitivity to temporal fine structure worsens with age and hearing loss (for a meta-analysis, see Füllgrabe and Moore, 2018) and that it plays a role in speech identification in quiet (Lorenzi et al, 2006) and in noise (Füllgrabe et al, 2015), possibly mediated via cognitive abilities such as selective auditory attention (Ruggles et al, 2012) and WM capacity (Füllgrabe and Rosen, 2016a). In addition, audiometric sensitivity further declines with age in the old-old and oldestold, possibly at an accelerated rate (Göthberg et al, 2019). Both aforementioned caveats suggest that the present study underestimates the actual detrimental effect of auditory deficits on cognitive-test performance, especially in the oldest members of the population.…”

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On the Possible Overestimation of Cognitive Decline: The Impact of Age-Related Hearing Loss on Cognitive-Test Performance

Füllgrabe

2020

Front. Neurosci.

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Individual differences and age-related normal and pathological changes in mental abilities require the use of cognitive screening and assessment tools. However, simultaneously occurring deficits in sensory processing, whose prevalence increases especially in old age, may negatively impact cognitive-test performance and thus result in an overestimation of cognitive decline. This hypothesis was tested using an impairment-simulation approach. Young normal-hearing university students performed three memory tasks, using auditorily presented speech stimuli that were either unprocessed or processed to mimic some of the perceptual consequences of agerelated hearing loss (ARHL). Both short-term-memory and working-memory capacities were significantly lower in the simulated-hearing-loss condition, despite good intelligibility of the test stimuli. The findings are consistent with the notion that, in case of ARHL, the perceptual processing of auditory stimuli used in cognitive assessments requires additional (cognitive) resources that cannot be used toward the execution of the cognitive task itself. Researchers and clinicians would be well advised to consider sensory impairments as a confounding variable when administering cognitive tasks and interpreting their results.

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On the Possible Overestimation of Cognitive Decline: The Impact of Age-Related Hearing Loss on Cognitive-Test Performance

Füllgrabe

2020

Front. Neurosci.

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“…It is already noticeable in middle age [3] and its severity increases with age. [4] Hearing loss can be very debilitating for the affected individual. It results in reduced speech identification, especially in the presence of background noise that often occurs in everyday, social listening settings (such as a busy restaurant).…”

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The association between cardiovascular health and peripheral and central auditory functions in adults: a protocol for a systematic review

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O’Donnell

Barrett

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Introduction: The ability to process sounds decreases with advancing age and the already high prevalence of people with hearing loss (HL) is estimated to increase further over the next decades. Hearing loss reduces speech identification which is important for day-to-day communication. In addition, it can lead to social isolation, depression, and lower quality of life. Current hearing rehabilitation strategies (eg, hearing aids) provide some benefits, but are not always accepted by hearing-impaired listeners and are less successful in real-life listening situations. Consequently, alternative rehabilitation strategies, such as the manipulation of cardiovascular (CV) health for the prevention and rehabilitation of HL, should be explored. Some research suggests that CV health and auditory functions are related, but the existence of such a link has not been systematically evaluated. This manuscript outlines the protocol for a systematic review of published research on the association between CV health and peripheral and central auditory functions across the adult lifespan and for all levels of hearing abilities. Method and analysis: The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses Protocols (PRISMA-P) checklist will be followed. Studies included for analysis will be original peer-reviewed articles, measuring cardiovascular health and hearing abilities to explore their relationship. Participants will be aged ≥18 years and will have various levels of hearing sensitivity and of CV health. Databases will be searched, using key words, to obtain evidence that meets the defined set of inclusion criteria. Data will be extracted and examined by two reviewers. Quality checks will occur, and, if appropriate, a meta-analysis will be performed. Data analysis will be completed and reported in a full systematic review, following the PRISMA guidelines. Ethics and dissemination: No ethical approval is needed for the systematic review as only published data will be analysed. Findings will be disseminated at conferences and in peer-reviewed journals.

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Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implants

Morris¹,

Velde²

2021

The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders

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Cross-sectional assessment of hearing acuity of an unscreened 85-year-old cohort - Including a 10-year longitudinal study of a sub-sample

Cited by 9 publications

References 32 publications

On the Possible Overestimation of Cognitive Decline: The Impact of Age-Related Hearing Loss on Cognitive-Test Performance

On the Possible Overestimation of Cognitive Decline: The Impact of Age-Related Hearing Loss on Cognitive-Test Performance

The association between cardiovascular health and peripheral and central auditory functions in adults: a protocol for a systematic review

Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implants

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